Why do CCTV cameras always have extremely poor resolution?

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I can’t think of a reason why other than the cost but surely it’s worth the potential to solve more crime

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It’s not the price of the cameras it’s the price of the storage. A LOT of security systems have perfectly fine cameras but compress the video for storage because it’s a lot of video to store for months on end. Not as common now but in the old days they would actually store multiple camera angles on one frame of video on VHS, Beta, or whatever.

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